Paradise Closing: Oil Drilling Begins in Okavango Delta

February 2, 2021/ News Editor / Africa, Botswana, drilling, endangered species, Environment, Environmental News Service, Fresh Water, gas, Journalism, Land Use, Latest News, Namibia, oil, Okavango, Okavango Delta, ReconAfrica, RSS, UNESCO, Water, wildlife

Published by the Environmental News Service

WINDHOEK, Namibia, February 1, 2021 (ENS) – The fate of one of Africa’s most valuable ecosystems will depend on results from wells being drilled deep into the bedrock beneath the Kalahari Desert of northern Namibia and Botswana in the hunt for a petroleum reservoir. If the search by Canadian oil and gas company ReconAfrica is successful, the region could be irrevocably transmogrified…

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